Stanleysteamer said:
Great,:):):)
I was watching a very early Wheeler Dealers tother day and Edd the Chinaplate was changing an alternator on a Lancia Integrale. Same sort of difficulty, he had to take it out from under the offside wing, after discumknockerating the suspenders.
I had a chat yessdi with Andy Saunders the funny car bloke of smallest mini fame who has done my MOTs I worked out today, for 34 years, :eek::eek::eek::eek:. He has worked with Edd on several programmes and I asked him what Edd was actually like, and he said "He knows fuck all!", and he only got where he got cos he is public school! He got jobs Andy didn't he reckons cos of that.
I told him I'd read Edd's book and that he was very complimentary about him, Andy, which made him laugh. I was going to lend him the book when I went back for retest but he surprised me by saying "pop over now if you like" so i threw all the tools back in the Disco and just ran over there, through the sh!t Friday arvo traffic. Forgot the book.:rolleyes:
Anyway he and his girlfriend are very keen to buy W's Speedster.:):):) After we get back from Frogland.
However, very sad news.:(:(:(
He is so ground down by his MOT and repair business, he's perpetually run off his feet as he just cannot get decent staff, that he told me quietly he is jacking it in and getting planning permission to put up flats where his business is.
So where the feck am I gonna find a decent fair MOT guy now?
Expect it'll all take time.
(Disco failed on ball joint on draglink thingy. Bit fiddly to fit but did it within an hour or so of getting the bit.);):)
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I thought it was common knowledge that Edd the horse was a talented speaker. :D
Shame about the chap jacking it in.:(:(
 
Guid morn
Cracking sunny start to the day
Oh and another cracking start got 3 numbers on lottery and as it was a rollover so got £96
Shared out £20 to wife, £10 each for kids and balance on fuel
Today mm potter about in garden, gym and river walk later
Enjoy the day all
:cool:
 
Put my fender battery on charge this morning and the charger red-lighted after half an hour indicating it won't hold charge. Tried again, same result. So got a noo one ordered. Old one is a Varta, which has lasted just under 5 years. The original it replaced was also a Varta but I replaced it with a slightly higher amps and CCA. Both lasted just under 5 years but I suspect the replacement was not right up to scratch from new but it never failed to start me tratter. Any road up I've had me plastic squander card out and ordered a Bosch this time. With a 5 year warranty.
 
My Old Landy said:
Sorry to hear this Dan, that is truly a sh!t situation. It is one of the reasons I have said I will only help financially with a written agreement. That way the 'other' party still pays their half of the money back and I can choose to not retrieve it from my offspring.
Three years is a very short time to give the marriage a go, it does seem to be the way these days though. Two thirds of their relationship have been through a pandemic, perhaps that is a major factor :(
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Agree totally about the length of the marriage altho we don't know if they lived together before that or not.:(
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Agree totally about the length of the marriage altho we don't know if they lived together before that or not.:(
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They have 2 kids 8 & 5. Lived together when he brought her in off the street to his old flat.
Absolutely HAD TO HAVE a posh wedding and not just a registry office & a party at my place so bang went £15k of my money because they said they were buying it but failed and got into trouble.
Now despite him borrowing 30k to get all the things she "wanted" and had to have to make her feel "better" about her life she wants out.
Spoilt, narcissistic little cow. But I am not allowed to say anything. :mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
kevstar said:
Why advertise stuff if you dodnt have it unless hes hoping to get orders to make them. ??
My mate showed me one the other day on marketplace, Brian James tri axle for 2k it was gone
with in a hour.
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The punk obviously is buying them cheap, new, so the manufacturer is a fly boy too, then flogging them off thru eBay to avoid all the bother of guarantees etc, the other bod flogging exactly the same ones but in Coventry, (the first is in Gainsborough) is obviously doing exactly the same thing. But his was advertised under "2nd hand" although his ad said "new". I asked him about why thie was and got no answer! Unsurprisingly.
There are a lot of sh!ts operating through eBay. Buyerfuckingbeware.com !!:mad::mad::mad::mad:
As for the 2k one. Secondhand ones are like rocking horse do-do. (That BJ was feckin cheap!)
Which is why we are going for a noo one. Comes with guarantees etc and I'll be able to use it transport W's car, kit cars, and any Frog jobbies we get too. As well as logs in and other junk to go to the tip. Will help keep the inside of the Disco clean. :):):)
 
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DanClarke said:
Morning All :D
A nice lie-in has been enjoyed. :)
Forgot to pick up our meds in the week so all out of heart meds etc. Oops! :oops:
Have a lovely day! :D
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Makes me realise how lucky we are that our local chemist is open 7 days a week, till 11 at night (close at 2 on Sundays) AND they deliver! (Free to housebound oaps. Must admit I think one like this must be very rare.
 
Wimblowdriver said:
Put my fender battery on charge this morning and the charger red-lighted after half an hour indicating it won't hold charge. Tried again, same result. So got a noo one ordered. Old one is a Varta, which has lasted just under 5 years. The original it replaced was also a Varta but I replaced it with a slightly higher amps and CCA. Both lasted just under 5 years but I suspect the replacement was not right up to scratch from new but it never failed to start me tratter. Any road up I've had me plastic squander card out and ordered a Bosch this time. With a 5 year warranty.
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Dunno if anyone else remembers "Charlie Browns" don't know if they were a chain or not, but they had one in Poole. I bought a battery from them once with a "lifetime guarantee" every time it failed I just took it back and got another. It didn't matter which car it was on, in fact I used it on three or four cars. This only stopped when Charlie Browns closed down. :(:(:(
 
DanClarke said:
They have 2 kids 8 & 5. Lived together when he brought her in off the street to his old flat.
Absolutely HAD TO HAVE a posh wedding and not just a registry office & a party at my place so bang went £15k of my money because they said they were buying it but failed and got into trouble.
Now despite him borrowing 30k to get all the things she "wanted" and had to have to make her feel "better" about her life she wants out.
Spoilt, narcissistic little cow. But I am not allowed to say anything. :mad::mad::mad::mad:
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Well you can say anything you want on here!
So sorry for all this, mate. I can't imagine anyone being on her side, but then we only know a tiny bit of the story. In your shoes I'd be feeling pretty murderous!:eek::mad: such a shame kids are involved. :(:(:(
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Dunno if anyone else remembers "Charlie Browns" don't know if they were a chain or not, but they had one in Poole. I bought a battery from them once with a "lifetime guarantee" every time it failed I just took it back and got another. It didn't matter which car it was on, in fact I used it on three or four cars. This only stopped when Charlie Browns closed down. :(:(:(
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They were like a pre Halfords. They done a brakes for life on the landy. Very good to have them change them after green laning.
 
Wimblowdriver said:
Yea, remember them. Used to get all my mini service parts there, at the Chatham branch. They always seemed lower priced than all the competition, fitted exhausts and all the usual services. Think they disappeared in the late eighties, must have been too low priced.
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some of their mechanics were a bit dodgy, they must have been on commission!
One of my mates rang me cos he took the brand new exhaust he had fitted back to them cos it was rattling, they told him he needed another new system, on the phone I told him it was probably a loose clip that needed tightening. I told him to put the mechanic on. He then said "Oh, he's fixing it, it was a loose clip, and he's not charging me!".
 
Hicap phill said:
They were like a pre Halfords. They done a brakes for life on the landy. Very good to have them change them after green laning.
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:D:D:D
Halfords had been around for ages but they didn't do much mechanicking at the time. Charlies were one of, if not the first, big spares shops to do mechanics as well, I think. I remember them changing clutches an orl. Did one for me on a Mk3 Cortina.;)
 
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